Caregiving Diversions
My caregiving often kept me housebound which meant a lot of
listening to music, watching TV, and reading.
When asked about my ONE FAVORITE, book, movie, song; or
even my top 10 books, movies, songs, I'm stuck. Do people have absolute
favorites? How do you compare fiction with nonfiction, or comedy with
drama? So if I do answer the question,
it is only true for that brief moment in time because my choices keep changing.
Here is my list of favorite, but maybe not-so-well
known-rock-'n-roll-non-instrumental-and-including-some-other-genres songs, in
no particular order. At least, they are my favorites at this moment….
1 Rock
Around the Clock, Bill Haley and His Comets [the one that started it all for
me]
2
California Sun, the Riveras [especially important to listen to in Chicago
during a February blizzard]
3 I've Got
a Line on You, Spirit [not copyright infringed by Led Zeppelin]
4 Season
of the Witch, Stills & Kooper, Super Session album [best album ever]
5
I'm Your Witch Doctor, John Mayall and the Blues Breakers (Clapton) [do I
detect a witchy theme?]
6
(Don't Fear) The Reaper, Blue Oyster Cult [good advice]
7 The
Voice, Moody Blues [even more haunting
than their ambitious concept album Days of Future Passed]
8 For What
It's Worth, Buffalo Springfield, written by Stills [sums up my experiences
during college]
9 Cocaine,
Eric Clapton [If that's too offensive we'll go with his I Shot the Sheriff]
10
Battle of New Orleans, Johnny Horton [hey, I'm a history major]
11 House of the Rising Sun, the Animals [Eric,
my man, you are still rockin' it!]
12 Quick Joey Small (Run Joey Run),
Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus [even with a fair amount of airtime in
'68 I was the only person I know who actually heard it.]
